DESIGNED BY OLIVIER MOURGUE, 1965, MANUFACTURED BY AIRBORNE FRANCE PRIOR TO 1976

The Djinn series by Mourgue has come to represent the quintessence of 'pop' furniture design, after being featured in Stanley Kubrick's seminal 2001 - A Space Odyssey. During the 1960s, the emerging popular interest in Eastern mysticism influenced the decorative arts in both Europe and America. This is reflected in the series title which evokes a spirit from Islamic mythology, capable of assuming both human and animal form.
See: Design Since 1945, exh. cat., pl. 31, p. 61.
Fiell, (1000 Chairs), p. 451.